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Becerra’s critics subscribe to “this very American bias that an immigrant only moves once to the U.S., the land of opportunity, of hope — all that mythology,” Gradilla continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

One apparent bias: Betting markets tend to overrate underdogs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

He later apologised and denied he was accusing her of bias.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The researchers also note that food frequency questionnaires rely on participants accurately remembering what they ate, which can introduce recall bias.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Taking our powers of rapid cognition seriously means we have to acknowledge the subtle influences that can alter or undermine or bias the products of our unconscious.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The findings also demonstrate why scientists must draw on several independent methods when reconstructing population histories, particularly when written records are incomplete, unreliable, or shaped by historical biases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Oblivious to her own biases about who Leo is and why, Mallory poses as a therapist keen on saving his life, but uses their faux sessions to mine his story for literary gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

This is because public data used to train many AI systems can reflect existing societal biases such as sexism or racism.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

But all inevitably carry their own biases, and none have the intimate understanding, sustained commitment or enduring responsibility that parents have for their children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The kinds of biases we’re talking about here aren’t so obvious that it’s easy to identify a solution.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

My dad did, and my dad's very biased, as you could imagine.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

However, those associations have generally been modest, and scientists have not been sure whether biased attention contributes to depression or develops because of it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

The plaintiffs alleged the department relied on documentation that “is the product of a biased, closed-off ‘process’ that ignored valid concerns raised by the public.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Clippers disputed the outcome, calling it “the result of a heavily biased investigation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The authors of the study found that many of these offenders weren’t even particularly biased toward their victims, but were following the lead of a more biased peer.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

What impartial judge would allow his mind to be biassed by them, altered and garbled as they must unquestionably be, even supposing that their originals once existed?

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

I have particular pleasure in quoting these words by a man of immense erudition, because he does not belong to orthodox writers, and will not therefore be thought biassed by a preconceived opinion.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

As minds are differently biassed, this fact will be differently judged.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

Although his judges were biassed against him he was acquitted on each count, and the result was received with enthusiastic cheers by immense crowds within and without the court.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Above all, the critic should be impartial, and by no means allow himself to be biassed by either prejudice or prepossession, whether personal or political.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

That smaller sample means certain demographic groups may be over- or under-covered, biasing the total estimates.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

That meant that researchers could keep the organoids separated without biasing their experimental results.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2025

Bullard said it's not just inflation biasing the Fed toward more action.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

By periodically biasing word selection in this way, a body of text is watermarked based on a particular distribution of tagged words.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2023

To my astonishment, she gave an immediate sign of intelligence by gliding, silently as a shadow, another step in my direction, and her biasing eyes appeared to kindle with merriment.

From The Gray Nun by Lionel Strachey

However, this is beside the question; and I want to avoid biassing your decision in any way.

From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by William Heysham Overend

Even if he was going to revise his views, was it right, was it candid, was it loyal to the truth, that he should revise them under the biassing influence of Meenie's eyes?

From Strange Stories by Grant Allen

There would be no harm in biassing me in her favour.

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

He did not," he said, "state the impression upon his own mind with the purpose of biassing theirs.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott

The subject is one of immense importance, and especially in this country, where it can seldom be discussed without adventitious circumstances biassing the inquirers.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur